There is so much richness here- I'm following your train of thought… i’m seeing this world from many different perspectives at the moment…
I’m noticing that I’m a bit afraid to write here, I find Substack a new platform where I find my intellect lacking… or my ability to express my ideas lacking…. But I don’t need to fear judgement from you. I just want to cuddle up to you and say “I hear where you’re going with these ideas, I’m with you. I get it!”
How can I say that? Well, because lately I’ve been watching these terrible Netflix documentaries on the fundamentalist LDS, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gloriavale. I’m seeing how a few white men at the top of many different organisations control with power/money/sex… I see how these white men have completely twisted the goodness of faith into being some sort of sickness that they can deal out for their own sexual perversion.
This is resulting in a loss of faith for me, but did I ever really have faith? Many people would say “no.” I’m a heathen. I’m a pagan. I’m an interfaith non-denominational minister.
Boy, I might as well be a witch.. and I can feel them wanting to burn me whenever I mix in their presence.
I want to live in a different world where all people matter, regardless of skin colour, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, disability, wealth or poverty. I’m a long way from that world. We are a long way from this world. Jesus wept… he continues to weep and nobody gives a shit.
Reading this today, I see that somebody else is imagining a new way, like I am…
P. Diddy is a modern day Caligula…
how many times a day do I think of the Roman Empire? Many!
There is so much richness here- I'm following your train of thought… i’m seeing this world from many different perspectives at the moment…
I’m noticing that I’m a bit afraid to write here, I find Substack a new platform where I find my intellect lacking… or my ability to express my ideas lacking…. But I don’t need to fear judgement from you. I just want to cuddle up to you and say “I hear where you’re going with these ideas, I’m with you. I get it!”
How can I say that? Well, because lately I’ve been watching these terrible Netflix documentaries on the fundamentalist LDS, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gloriavale. I’m seeing how a few white men at the top of many different organisations control with power/money/sex… I see how these white men have completely twisted the goodness of faith into being some sort of sickness that they can deal out for their own sexual perversion.
This is resulting in a loss of faith for me, but did I ever really have faith? Many people would say “no.” I’m a heathen. I’m a pagan. I’m an interfaith non-denominational minister.
Boy, I might as well be a witch.. and I can feel them wanting to burn me whenever I mix in their presence.
I want to live in a different world where all people matter, regardless of skin colour, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, disability, wealth or poverty. I’m a long way from that world. We are a long way from this world. Jesus wept… he continues to weep and nobody gives a shit.
Reading this today, I see that somebody else is imagining a new way, like I am…
P. Diddy is a modern day Caligula…
how many times a day do I think of the Roman Empire? Many!
We’re repeating everything…
It’s time we give others control…
Tautoko Laura, I’m writing here because I think it’s my work to do. And many of us see different ways! Nothing is inevitable